A Mediterranean Society: The Jewish Communities of the Arab Worlds as Portrayed in the Documents of the Cairo Geniza; Daily Life

by S.D. Goitein

Book Overview

This six-volume "portrait of a Mediterranean personality" is a composite portrait of the individuals who wrote the personal letters, contracts, and all other manuscript fragments that found their way into the Cairo Geniza. Most of the fragments from the Geniza, a storeroom for discarded writings that could not be thrown away because they might contain the name of God, had been removed to Cambridge University Library and other libraries around the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520221613
• ISBN13: 9780520221611
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 513 Pages
• Weight: 1.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"